The Essential Tversky (Paperback)

Some of the best and most influential papers by Amos Tversky, one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century. Amos Tversky (1937-1996) was a towering figure in the cognitive and decision sciences. His work was ingenious, exciting, and influential, spanning topics from intuition to statistics to behavioral economics. His long and extraordinarily productive collaboration with his friend and colleague Daniel Kahneman was the subject of Michael Lewis's best-selling book, The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed Our Minds. The Essential Tversky offers a selection of Tversky's best, most influential and accessible papers, "classics" chosen to capture the essence of Tversky's thought. The impact of Tversky's work is far reaching and long-lasting. In 2002, Kahneman, who drew on their joint work in his much-praised 2013 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow (and who contributes an afterword to this collection), was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for work done with Tversky. In The Undoing Project, Lewis (who contributes a foreword to this collection) describes his discovery that Tversky and Kahneman's thinking laid the foundation for Moneyball, his own ode to number-crunching. The papers collected in The Essential Tversky cover topics that include cognitive and perceptual bias, misguided beliefs, inconsistent preferences, risky choice and loss aversion decisions, and psychological common sense. Together, they offer nonspecialist readers an introduction to one of the most brilliant social science thinkers of the twentieth century.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	The Essential Tversky
Release date:	July 2018
Authors:	Amos Tversky
Editors:	Eldar Shafir (William Stewart Tod Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs)
Foreword by:	Michael Lewis
Afterword by:	Daniel Kahneman
Dimensions:	229 x 178 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-53510-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > States of consciousness > Drug-induced states Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Clinical psychology > Psychotherapy
LSN:	0-262-53510-6
Barcode:	9780262535106

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